Future of Xbox

[Mystyrion]

Thank you both for the sources. I couldn't do any searching myself while at work yesterday. That's good news! I'm still not purchasing a One/4, but that's good news for the folks that are.

At least there is external support planned for the non-upgradable One. But I wonder what capacity the One recognizes for the external drives? If memory serves, the 360 could only recognize and utilize up to 32GB regardless of the drive's actual capacity. I hope that isn't the case with the Xbox One's operating system(s).

Honestly I worried the Xbox One would treat external storage like it did this generation on the Xbox 360---i.e. properly-formatted thumb drives or limited-capacity USB storage with restrictions on what files could be saved where. (I lost all of my Oblivion and Mass Effect 1/2 data because they stubbornly refused to copy to a thumb drive. That might have been a publisher restriction, though.)

The 360 is only USB 2.0 support though right?
With this next generation being 3.0 and the downloads and installation of game I see the capacity being much greater. I do still see that you have to format the device, but with the capability of larger drives I don't see that being a huge problem.

[Incognitus]

The 360 is only USB 2.0 support though right?
With this next generation being 3.0 and the downloads and installation of game I see the capacity being much greater. I do still see that you have to format the device, but with the capability of larger drives I don't see that being a huge problem.

I think the limitation is with the 360's operating system rather than the USB speed. But you're probably right. The Xbox One has something like three operating systems, including Windows 8, right? It should at least support a higher capacity based on that fact alone.